Water-wheel



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WATER WHEEL.

No. 884,888. Patented June 19. A1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ADAM GEORGE AND VILLIAM KLEIN DINST, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

WATER-'ll'i/HEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,838, dated June 19l 1888.

Application tiled January 28, 1888. Serial No. 262,221. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ADAM GEORGE and WILLIAM KLEINDINsT, both of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Water-Wheels, of which the follow-` ing is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to undershot water-wheels, and has for its object to render the paddles or iloats of the wheel radially movable, so that they can be adj usted to the varying height of the water caused by the tides, heavy rain-falls, dry seasons, dto., and so that the motion of the wheel can be stopped by withdrawing its floats front the water without affecting the position of the main part of the wheel and its supports. l

The invention consists of the improvements which will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, consisting of two sheets, Figure lis a fragmentary sectional elevation of our improved water-wheel. Fig. 2 is a vertical crossseetion thereof in line x x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of the wheel,with aportion ofthe shifting mechanism shown in section. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of said shifting mechanism. Fig. 5 is a top plan view thereof, partly in section, and the parts of the water-wheel connected therewith.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Arepresents the horizontal shaft upon which the water-wheel is mounted, and which isjournaled in suitable bearings formed in frames or supports A A2, resting upon the walls of' the race or sluice or upon the adjacent banks of the stream. The body or frame of the wheel consists of two hubs, B B, mounted upon the shaft A and having annular flanges b,and two annular plates or disks, B' B, fitting over the hubs B B and secured to the hub-flanges Z1.

C represents the floats or paddles arranged to slide radially toward and from the center of the wheel in radial guides or ways o, secured to the disks B and hub-fiangcs Z1. Each of these guides is preferably formed by two angleirons arranged parallel to each other and at a short distance apart, the ends of the paddles C being conned between the adjacent angular flanges of the augle-irons, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2. These angle-irons are riveted or otherwise secured to the disks B and hubllanges b,and also serve to increase the strength of the wheel.

d represents annular flanges or angle-irons secured to the inner sides of the disks B B' at the outer ends of the guides or angle-irons c. These flanges limit the outer movement of the paddles or floats C, and also stiften the outer portions of the wheel.

E represents radial actuating-levers pivoted `between lugs or ears e, formed on the outer faces of the hub-tlanges b, and projecting with their inner portions through radial slots or openings f, formed in the adjacent portions of the disks B', hubnanges b, and angle-irons c. The actuating-levers E are pivotally connected at their inner ends to the paddles C bylinks g, and at their outer ends to a sliding collar or sleeve, H, mounted on the shaft A,by links g. Each paddle is provided with an actuating-lever, E; Upon shifting the collar H upon the shaft A in either direction all of the paddles C are simultaneously moved inwardly or 011t Wardly in the guides c toward or away from the center of the wheel. The collar H is held against rotary movement on the shaft by a key or feather engaging in a longitudinal groove formed in the bore of the collar, as shown in Fig. 5.

I I represent worm-wheels j ournaled in bean ings t 13, arranged in the supporting-frame A", and J J are horizontal feed-screws engaging with their outer portions in screw-threaded openings t" fi', formed in the hubs of the wormwheelsI I. The inner ends of these feed-screws are secured to the outer ends of horizontal arms la 1c, secured to opposite sides of the shifting collar H. Upon turning the worm-wheelsI I the feed-screws are caused to move through the threaded openings of the worm-wheels and shift the collar H.

Z Z represent worms mounted upon a transverse horizontal shaft, m, and engaging, respectively, with the worm-whecls I I. The shaft m is mounted in bearings secured to the frame A', and is provided with a hand-wheel, m', for turning it. Uponturning the handwheel in either direction the paddles are moved outwardly or retracted. By this construction IOO the paddles or floats can bel readily adjusted to suit the rise and fall of the stream and be immersed to the proper depth at all times, or they can be wholly withdrawn from the water to arrest the motion of the wheel when desired, thus dispensing with the use of the sluice-gates for this purpose.

It is obvious that our improved wheel may be used as a paddle-wheel for propelling vessels, the paddles being drawn inwardly when the vessel is loaded and moved outwardly when the vessel is unloaded and rises in the water.

We claim as our invention- 1. In a water-wheel, the combination, withY the shaft A and the two annular plates or disks B, provided with radial guides or ways c, of the radially-movable paddles or floats C, arranged between said disks and sliding in the ways c, the shifting collar or sleeve H,mounted on the shaft A, and the actuatinglevers E, connecting said paddles or iioats with the shifting sleeve H, substantially as set forth.

2. In a waterwheel, the combination, with the shaft A and the twoannular plates or rings B' B', provided with radial guides or ways c, of the radially-1novable paddles or iioats C, arranged in said ways between the plates B' B', the shifting sleeve H, sliding on the shaft A, actuating-levers E, connecting the paddles C with the shifting sleeve H, and a feed screw or screws,whereby said shiftingsleeve is actuated, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a water-wheel, its supportingshaft, and the frame A',of radially- .movable paddles or iioats C, a shifting sleeve,H,

having arms la 7a, actuating-levers E,feed-sorews J J, secured with their inner ends to said arms, worm-wheels I I, mounted in the frame A', and having hubs provided with screw-threaded openings, in which the feed-screws J work, worms Z l,L meshing with said worm-wheels,and a horizontal shaft, m, upon which said worms are mounted, and provided with a hand-wheel, m', substantially as set forth.

4. In a water-wheel, the combination, with the hubs B B and disks B B', secured to said hubs, of radial guides c, secured to said hubs and disks,and each composed of two parallel angleirons,and movable paddles or iioats @,arranged in said guides between the disks B' B', substantially as set forth.

5. In a watcnwheel, the combination, with the hubs B B and disks B' B', secured to said hubs, of radial guides c, secured to said hubs and disks and each composed of two parallel angle-irons, and an annular fiange or angleiron, d, secured to the inner sides of said disks at the outer ends of said guides or ways, and movable paddles or ioat-s C. arranged in said guides between the disks B' B', substantially as set forth.

Vitness our hands this 21st day of January, 1888.

ADAM GEORGE. WILLIAM KLEINDINST.

W`itnesses:

JN0. J. BONNER, FRED. C. 

